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Adobe Afternoon

This is a quick little project that relies on the shape of this headset
box to do most of the work for me. If you start out with boxes, stir sticks,
wood glue, sand, and paint, you can kick one of these out in an hour. I did
this one at lunch yesterday.

You could probably get faster with practice or by doing several at a time.
The big limiting factor is starting with a box that has roughly the shape you
want in roughly the size you want.

She Who Must Be Obeyed asserts that the biggest influence on how quick and
easy such a project is comes from being able to look at the above picture
and see this one in your mind.

No special techniques here. Just a couple measured cuts, folds and then
gluing the flaps in place. The stir sticks will add just enough extra detail
to this to keep it from looking so much like a box.

And one extra weird bit here ... the apple corer ...

... for this.

If you spirit is pure and your apple corer is sharp, windows to the universe
will seem to open for themselves.

- Confuscious

Oh yeah. The box opens up this direction from the back. I was careful to
glue the stir sticks in places that would allow it to keep opening like
this, so I get a building with an interior as well as an exterior.

It's a different feel than a lift off roof, but not really any more difficult
to open and close (it's designed for that, after all). And the roof doesn't
get knocked off or misalign.

Here she is painted up and ready for the table.

I used wood glue and two off white colors, not completely mixed together
to get the adobe look. If you dab the brush after brushing on the paint,
the glue gives it just that little bit of texture.

The courtyard is filled with my standard wood glue, sand, paint mix.

This last picture was taken several hours after the start of the project
since the biggest time constraint was waiting for the paint to dry.